Keyword identification for an enterprise resource planning manager

Abstract

Financial data that contains a least one financial entry relating to procurement of goods, services, materials and/or items. The financial data is cleansed to remove information contained within the at least one financial entry. The keywords are determined within the at least one financial entry of the financial data and a database that includes a plurality of databases entries is searched for a database entry that corresponds to the keywords determined in the at least one financial entry of the financial data. An identification number in the database entry that corresponds to the keywords determined in the at least one financial entry of the financial data and updating the at least one financial entry of the financial data to include the determined identification number. The updated financial procurement data is transmitted to a computing device.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A method comprising:
 receiving, by a computer, financial data from a computing device, wherein the financial data includes at least one financial entry that includes a name of a service, a name of a service provider, a cost of the service, and a commodity identification number of the service; 
 creating a cleansed financial entry, by the computer, for each datum from at least one financial entry except any unnecessary information contained within the at least one financial entry, wherein the unnecessary information comprises numeric characters, special characters other than alphabetic characters, abbreviations, and stop words; 
 identifying, by the computer, keywords in the at least one cleansed financial entry; 
 creating a plurality of tables that include columns labeled as Keywords AND Not Keywords, Keywords AND, Keywords NOT, and Keywords; 
 inserting the identified keywords into the prepared tables; 
 searching, by the computer, a database for a database entry that corresponds to the identified keywords in the created tables, wherein the database has five columns, wherein one column is labeled Commodity Id, one column is labeled Commodity Name, one column is labeled Keywords, one column is labeled AND Keywords, and one column is labeled Not Keywords; 
 determining, by the computer, a commodity identification number in the database entry that corresponds to the identified keywords in the created tables, wherein the commodity identification number is a custom created identification number and taxonomy database; 
 updating, by the computer, the at least one financial entry to include the determined commodity identification number, wherein the commodity identification number is added to at least one received financial data without a commodity identification; and 
 transmitting, by the computer, the updated financial data to the computing device, wherein the updated financial data includes the updated financial entry.